Meden agan - Nothing in excess

‘Meden agan’ is a famous epigram on the temple of Delphi in Greece. On the way to the temple, ‘Medenagan’ is written along with ‘Know thyself’.
Solon (BC638 – BC558), one of the Seven Sages of Greece, said it as the meaning of ‘Everything should not be immoderate nor biased’. That is, ‘Excess is same as insufficient’.

 

‘Meden agan’ is necessary for the current Street Performance in South Korea.
It seems to have lost the freedom, purity, and expression of Street Performance since they have been trying to make significant developments in a short period of time. 

 

I used ‘Meden agan’ as the title of the video, hoping for the harmonious future of South Korean Street Performance with enough time to settle in.

 

 

CAVARNOS, C. (1996). The seven sages of ancient Greece: the lives and teachings of the earliest Greek philosophers, Thales, Pittacos, Bias, Solon, Cleobulos, Myson, Chilon. Belmont, Mass, Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.